We complete our coverage of last week's Regents meetings with this posting.
Several Regental committees met last Wednesday afternoon. Compliance and Audit approved the annual plan for audits without discussion in a brief session. Health Services approved a plan for UC-San Francisco to acquire and operate two Dignity Health (Catholic) hospitals in San Francisco. The two hospitals were said to be losing money and operating at 25% capacity while it was suggested that existing UC-SF hospitals were running over their capacity.
Still, it was unclear exactly how the low capacity hospitals could be raised to sufficient levels of operation to be profitable. Representatives of UC-SF said that the existing workforces and wages and benefits would be retained. It was noted that several UC-SF doctors are already working at the Dignity hospitals. (As we have noted in prior postings, the controversy over limits on UC-SF doctors at such hospitals to provide services such as abortion would evaporate once the religious affiliation was dropped.)
A short session of the National Labs committee approved a budget plan for the labs. It might be noted that with all the buzz surrounding the new Oppenheimer movie, the current structure of the Labs grew out of the World War II Manhattan Project.
At Public Engagement and Development, there was a half hour presentation (starting at around minute 9) by CUCEA on the most recent survey of emeriti activities, A Virtual 11th Campus." CUCEA president Jo Anne Boorkman (UC-Davis) introduced two emeriti - Ellen Weber, MD (UC-San Francisco) and Jim Danziger (UC-Irvine Poli Sci) - who described their post-retirement teaching, research, and service activities.
Finally, there was a report on Sacramento affairs. As is always the case, the budget outcome for UC was described as "great" which really translated as being as good as possible given fiscal stringency. Various bills now before the legislature were described. UC is supporting a bill that would remove the noisy-student issue from CEQA which has blocked the Berkeley People's Park project. A bill that would require revenue sharing with student-athletes was put off until next year. Negotiations are going on over a bill that in its present form would have a uniform standard for community college transfers to either UC or CSU. UC opposes the current version of the bill because requirements for majors differ across the two systems.
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As always, we preserve recordings of Regents meetings because the Regents have no set policy regarding retention. The link for the full afternoon session of July 19 is at:
https://archive.org/details/public-engagement-and-development-committee-7-19-23-pm.
Compliance and Audit is at:
Health Services and National Labs:
Public Engagement and Development:
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